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Eugene Talmadge. Eugene Talmadge served as governor of Georgia from 1933 to 1937 and again from 1941 to 1943. His personality and actions polarized voters into Talmadge and anti-Talmadge factions in the state's one-party politics of that era. His death in 1946 touched off the unprecedented "three governors controversy."
Eugene Talmadge. Born on September 23rd, 1884, outside of Forsyth, Georgia, Eugene Talmadge would dominate the state’s politics for decades. As a young man, Talmadge attended the University of Georgia and graduated from the university’s law school in 1909. He married Mattie Thurmond Peterson shortly after earning his law degree and moved to ...
EUGENE TALMADGE, Georgia’s 55th governor, was born in Forsyth, Georgia, on September 23, 1884. In 1907, he graduated from the University of Georgia, where he earned a LL.B. degree. He established a legal career and also farmed in Montgomery County. Talmadge entered public service in 1918 as solicitor of the city court of McRae, a …
Eugene Talmadge. Eugene Talmadge (September 23, 1884 – December 21, 1946) [1] was an American attorney and politician. He was the 55th governor of Grorgia. [2] He was elected to be governor three times but only served two time. He served from 1933 until 1937 [2] and from 1941 until 1943. Talmadge died before he could be sworn in for the third ...
Learn More - Eugene Talmadge William Anderson, The Wild Man from Sugar Creek: The Political Career of Eugene Talmadge (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1975). Charles Myer Elson, "The Georgia Three-Governor Controversy of 1947," Atlanta Historical Bulletin 20 (fall 1976): 72-95. Calvin McLeod Logue, Eugene Talmadge: Rhetoric and Response (New York: Greenwood Press, 1989).
Eugene Talmadge (September 23, 1884 – December 21, 1946) was an attorney and American politician who served three terms as the 67th governor of Georgia, from 1933 to 1937, and then again from 1941 to 1943.
Eugene Talmadge’s career as a politician lasted twenty years, and during that time he dominated Georgia’s political structure as few men have in any state’s history. The Wild Man from Sugar Creek is a fascinating biography of one of the South’s most colorful political figures. It is also a revealing analysis of the Georgia mind in the ...
